The Speeches Of The Week Have Been Chiefly On Education,
Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. E. A. Leatham having spoken on it at Dewsbury, with an evident bias towards compulsory education ; Mr. Austin Bruce, at Halifax, having advocated his own......
They Certainly Do Things On A Noble Scale At Manchester.
Owens College is trying to raise a fund for a new Professorship of Engineering. 8,750/. is already subscribed by little more than a dozen subscribers, one firm alone, Messrs.......
Mr. Dudley Baxter Writes An Excellent Letter To The Times
about the distress of "East London," the irregular square, containing 4,480 acres, on which stand Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George's, Mile End Old......
A Conference Was Held On Wednesday At The City Terminus
Hotel, Cannon Street, Mr. Miall in the chair, on the right course to pursue with respect to the Irish Established Church. The Conference agreed that the Irish Establishment......
The Fire On Friday Week At Her Majesty's Theatre, Which
ended in its total destruction, has produced the usual crop of suggestions to prevent fires in theatres, an object, we fear, unattainable. There must be a wooden stage, built in......
Lord Granville Has Had A Pleasing Little Correspondence...
Duke of Marlborough. The Duke,—who evidently had never read the Conscience Clause,—said that the chief objection of the clergy to it was, that it did not only protect the......
It Was Expected In Paris That M. Gamier Pagbs'...
on German affairs would elicit from M. Rouher Some distinct state- ment of the Imperial policy, perhaps a declaration that Prussia should " never " have Rastadt. Prussia,......
It Is Reported—truly Or Falsely—that Lord Stanley,...
receipt of M. Rouherls speech, telegraphed to the British Embassy to say, that such being the Imperial programme, Her Majesty's Government definitively .declined to enter the......
Mr. Seward Has Really Bought And, According To The Herald,
taken possession of St. Thomas and St. Croix, the Danish West India Islands, which will, therefore, be governed as a Territory. It is by no liaisons certain, however, that the......
An Inquest On A Child Who Died This Week In
the house of a man named Cooper, in Hackney Road, has brought to light a shocking system of moral infanticide prevalent in our midst. The boy, it appeared, was the illegitimate......
The Pall Mall Gazette Traces The Discreditable Break-down...
Poor Law Board to the influence of the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Fleming, who, it is hinted, pooh-poohs complaints. That some influence hostile to all vigorous reform is at work......
The Italian Budget For 1868 Was Proposed On December 12,
by the new Finance Minister, S. Cambray Digny. No details are given in the telegram, but it is announced that the Government intends to levy the multure tax, an impost which, it......